Long scorned despite being cheaper and more accurate than their mechanical counterparts, quartz watches are finally getting some love. By Scott Cacciola Wristwatch enthusiasts can be persnickety. They ...

Chances are good that if you’re a regular Robb Report reader, you already know the answer to that question: Yes, mechanical watches are inferior, compared to their quartz counterparts, with respect to ...

While some watch models, such as Daytona and Royal Oak, have achieved international fame and fortune over the past five decades, rarely does a movement ever attain name recognition, except among the ...

A smoothly sweeping seconds hand is often used by a budding watch fancier as an indicator of quality. If you are close enough to tell the time, you can see whether the hand ticks once per second, or ...

OMEGA has launched the new Aqua Terra 30mm watch. In a smaller size than before, the OMEGA Aqua Terra 30mm has 12 references to choose from, which feature two new Master Chronometer movements. OMEGA ...

We wear watches to know the time… don’t we? Given that I, and many other collectors I know, have strapped a watch on in the morning and only later that afternoon realised the watch has been neither ...

Too often, quartz is disregarded as a cheap, passionless way to tell time. While mechanical watches are put on a pedestal as complicated high art (and to be fair, in many cases they are), quartz is ...

No matter how broad the watch market can seem, there are two distinct types of timepiece: digital and analogue. These can also be referred to as having a quartz movement (digital) or a mechanical ...

Before it came to represent mass production and dirt-cheap watches, quartz was once upon a time a cutting-edge technology. It was expensive at first, the wave of the future, and it nearly upended an ...